Possible to add imagick webp support for PHP in AWS Linux 2?

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I'm running PHP 7.4 on an AWS Linux 2 instance. PHP 7.4 comes with imagick module 3.4.4 compiled by ImageMagick 6.9.10-6, but it doesn't have support for WEBP enabled.

I've installed the libwebp-devel library, but I can't figure out how to recompile the imagick module to support webp. I tried installing from the PECL source a la this comment, but when I check php -i WEBP still isn't listed under supported formats.

I also tried installing ImageMagick from source, and while I was able to get WEBP conversion going in the command line, the PHP extension still doesn't show support.

user_1615070 · Answer

I'm not currently expert at PHP, but after reading this post Understanding PHP library installation and knowing some linux ecosystem, I think that after recompiling ImageMagick, you have to tell to the imagick module, that you have new version of ImageMagick. Or even recompile module (according to this site: https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/217253537-Installing-ImageMagick-and-the-imagick-PHP-module-on-Shared-hosting).

Possible to add imagick webp support for PHP in AWS Linux 2?

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